This was a successful experiment: it helped us to learn. Lessons have been integrated into PyScript. This archived repository is kept for posterity.
PolyPlug is a browser based framework for linking the DOM and DOM based events with scripting languages compiled to WASM.
For more information please read our documentation (the source for which is in the ./docs directory).
It is:
- Agnostic of the interpreter receiving and responding to DOM events.
- Message based (JSON).
- Small (efficient to start).
- Simple (easier to maintain).
- Expressive (capable of many things).
This is the way:
- Obvious code.
- Simple is good.
- No dependencies.
- Vanilla JavaScript.
- Comments.
- Tests.
- Build for change.
This project was created for research purposes as part of the efforts to build PyScript.
There are two sides to PolyPlug:
- The
polyplug.jscode to be run in the main thread of the browser. - Code, to be run in the interpreter of the scripting language, to communicate
with PolyPlug. Currently only
polyplug.pyexists as a reference implementation.
That is all.
For Python development, create a new virtual environment and install the required packages:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
For JavaScript development, just edit the file and run the tests. There are deliberately no dependencies or complex tooling to ensure simplicity. Should you wish to minify the JavaScript source, you can (optionally) install uglifyjs.
Common tasks are scripted by a Makefile (tested on Linux and Mac):
$ make
There's no default Makefile target right now. Try:
make flake8 - run the flake8 Python checker.
make testjs - run the JavaScript test suite.
make testpy - run the Python test suite.
make minify - minify the project.
make tidy - tidy the Python code with black.
make docs - use Sphinx to create project documentation.
For the sake of simplicity (and familiarity) we use the Jasmine test framework to exercise the JavaScript aspects of our code.
For similar reasons, we use PyTest to exercise the Pythonic aspects of our code.